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The pounding felt like drumsticks were using her head as their drum.
Her medicine cabinet had been empty, and so she'd gone across the hall to beg some aspirin off Leonard.
Instead, she'd been faced with his neurotic housemate who was now intently reading the back of the medicine packet. Ignoring him, she pops four tablets free.
She disregards Sheldon's indignant squawk as she downs them. 'I don't have 24 hours to wait.'
'Penny, the instructions are quite clear,' argues Sheldon. 'Look. Two in the first hour...'
She brushes him off. 'They're just a guideline.'
'But Penny...'
'Zip it Sheldon.'
Finito